Word: streisands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does not exist only to entertain," Streisand said, attacking consevatives' calls to eliminate federal funding for the arts. "To force us to conform to some rigid notion of mainstream American values is to weaken the very foundation of American democracy...
...Streisand said increased public support for the arts was particularly crucial in light of the current political climate...
...Streisand said funding of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting should continue and that House Speaker Newt Gingrich's notion that private donations could provide continued quality arts programming was incorrect...
...Streisand has been an active campaigner fordemocratic candidates since George McGovern's 1972presidential...
...Streisand Foundation, set up in the wake ofthe 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, has donatedover $8 million to a variety of liberal causes,including AIDS research, environmental protectionand gay rights activism...